Scholarlink

<p>Specialized metabolites released in the environment mediate ecological interactions across geographic scales and levels of biological organization. Whereas chemodiversity—the richness, relative abundance and disparity of specialized compounds within a blend of metabolites—has received substantial interest at the level of pairwise interactions, much less is known about how metabolites produced by multiple individuals and species merge into higher-level blends at population, community and ecosystem scales. Here we review evidence for emergent functions that arise from such higher-level chemodiversity: how blends can change in composition and functional consequence as they move through air, water and soil, and vary in time and space, thereby creating a dynamic chemodiversity landscape. We further discuss the applied potential of these chemodiversity landscapes and the threats that could compromise them. We outline key questions that will help to guide research on how higher-level chemodiversity contributes to ecological processes and functioning across scales.</p>

错误：搜索内容不能为空，请输入英文关键词
错误：关键词超出字数限制，请精简
高级检索

Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape

  • 期刊论文

  • 发表日期：

    2026年5月18日

查看全文
  • Maximilian Hanusch,
  • Thomas Dussarrat,
  • Xue Xiao,
  • Dominik Ziaja,
  • Kruthika Sen Aragam,
  • James D. Blande,
  • Andrea Bräutigam,
  • Nicole M. van Dam,
  • Benjamin M. Delory,
  • Selina Gaar,
  • Marvin Hildebrandt,
  • Ruth Jakobs,
  • Robert R. Junker,
  • Caroline Müller,
  • Thomas Nägele,
  • Moritz Popp,
  • Riikka Rinnan,
  • Hannah Schneider,
  • Jörg-Peter Schnitzler,
  • Judit Valeria Mendoza Servín,
  • Anke Steppuhn,
  • Dorothea Tholl,
  • Yonca B. Seymen,
  • Elikplim Aku Setordjie,
  • Sybille B. Unsicker,
  • Sarah K. Weirauch,
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser,
  • Robin Heinen

摘要

Specialized metabolites released in the environment mediate ecological interactions across geographic scales and levels of biological organization. Whereas chemodiversity—the richness, relative abundance and disparity of specialized compounds within a blend of metabolites—has received substantial interest at the level of pairwise interactions, much less is known about how metabolites produced by multiple individuals and species merge into higher-level blends at population, community and ecosystem scales. Here we review evidence for emergent functions that arise from such higher-level chemodiversity: how blends can change in composition and functional consequence as they move through air, water and soil, and vary in time and space, thereby creating a dynamic chemodiversity landscape. We further discuss the applied potential of these chemodiversity landscapes and the threats that could compromise them. We outline key questions that will help to guide research on how higher-level chemodiversity contributes to ecological processes and functioning across scales.